The Morris Ring Archive
The Steeple Claydon Page

It is convenient for many Archive users to be able to consult material which is grouped together in easily accessible form by tradition or geographical location. The Ring Archive has collated such information and the items relating to Steeple Claydon, Buckinghamshire, are detailed below.

Itens marked with a [] are "Restricted to Archive" and are only available for consultation within the Archive, all others can be suplied in photocopy form.

A. Published Sources.

• Verney, Margaret Maria, Verney Letters of the Eighteenth Century from the MSS at Claydon House, London: Ernest Benn, (1930), Vol 2, p41
  
• Bacon, L., A Handbook of Morris Dances, London: The Morris Ring, (1974), 299-301.
  The relevant pages from the "Black Book". Contains interpretations of the Steeple Claydon dance, together with music.
  
• Heaney, M., Bedlam Morris, Eynsham: Chandler Publications, (1985), 18-19.
  Suggests that the Steeple Claydon dance may be a remnant of Bedlam Morris.
  
• Chandler, K, Morris Dancing in the English South Midlands, 1660-1900. A Chronological Gazetteer, London: Hisarlik Press, (1993), 55-56.
  

B.  Unpublished Sources.

• Sharp, C.J., MSS "Folk Dances", 4,
  f86-87, Interviews with John Jennings and John Inwood, Steeple Claydon, 8 September 1922.
  
  Available in original handwritten form and as a modern typescript copy.
  
• Sharp, C.J., MSS "Folk Tunes", 23,
  No 4886, Interview with John Inwood, Steeple Claydon, 8 September 1922.
  
• Dommett, R.L., MS Collection.
  
  Other Morris
  The first contains Dommett's interpretations of the Steeple Claydon dances, based upon manuscript sources. Includes music.
  
  The Morris at Steeple Claydon, Bucks.  Essentially a transcription of Sharp's notes.
  
  Letter to E.C Cawte, 20/8/61.  Merely a passing mention.
  
  Unpublished Morris Tunes.  A transcription of the Steeple Claydon tune from the Sharp MSS

Further information is available in Sharp's Field Notebooks. Copies are not presently available in the Archive.

A complete set of the above references can be supplied. Price on application.